Thunderbird 140 Mail Client Debuts As Newest ESR Release
The Thunderbird mail client developers today formally announced Thunderbird 140 as the newest Extended Support Release (ESR) for this cross-platform alternative to Microsoft Outlook...
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A change proposal has been raised to compress the initrd by default using Zstd compression rather than XZlxer.com
MayQueen has introduced the PANZER-LITE93, a compact fanless edge computing device built on the NXP i.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.lxer.com
AMD openSIL PoC Still Being Worked On For Phoenix SoCs, Turin Code Published
One topic we haven't heard AMD talk too much about publicly this year has been their openSIL effort that was announced back in 2023 as their eventual replacement to AGESA and being an open-source CPU silicon initialization effort. They still appear to be working toward making openSIL production-ready for next-generation Zen 6 platforms but some of their proo…
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We start with attempt to install Pamac-GUI on CachyOS 250530. When install of Pamac-GUI succeeded we synchronize instance with AUR and m...lxer.com
Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers Expected To Debut In Linux 6.17
Being worked on for a number of months now has been the Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers for Linux to expose additional power/performance settings for Lenovo gaming series hardware like the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld with Steam OS. With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel, the Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers are expected to be finally upstreamed...
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GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New Features
The GNOME 49 Alpha "49.alpha" release was just announced as the first formal test release in the road to the GNOME 49 desktop release due out in September...
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The GNOME 49 Alpha '49.alpha' release was just announced as the first formal test release in the road to the GNOME 49 desktop release due out in September.www.phoronix.com
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Rhino 2025.3, Bash 5.3, 7-Zip v25, Plasma 6.4.2, Thunderbird 140, Let’s Encrypt IP certificates, Fedora holds off on dropping i686, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
LLVM Clang Merges -mcpu=gb10 Support For NVIDIA GB10 Superchip
Merged today for the LLVM/Clang compiler is -mcpu=gb10 support for catering to NVIDIA's forthcoming Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip...
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LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support
While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.2 is adding initial support for importing Markdown files into the LibreOffice Writer word processor...
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AMDKFD Kernel Compute Driver Used By ROCm Can Work On LoongArch Hardware
The AMDKFD "Kernel Fusion Driver" used as the Linux kernel GPU compute driver and necessary part of their ROCm compute stack it turns out can build and run on the Chinese-developed LoongArch systems rather easily...
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The AMDKFD 'Kernel Fusion Driver' used as the Linux kernel GPU compute driver and necessary part of their ROCm compute stack it turns out can build and run on the Chinese-developed LoongArch systems rather easily.www.phoronix.com
Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Integrated Graphics Firmware Upstreamed
As a good sign of the progress being made on the Xe3 integrated graphics Linux support and of the Core Ultra Panther Lake launch approaching, the necessary graphics firmware binaries have now been upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository...
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TornadoVM 1.1.1 Released For Java Programming Of Heterogeneous Hardware
TornadoVM version 1.1.1 is now available for this OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that supports Java offloading to GPUs, FPGAs, and other heterogeneous hardware. The past few years TornadoVM has been making a lot of progress to automatically run Java programs across GPUs and other devices supporting OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and Khronos SPIR-V/Vulkan...
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Linus Torvalds just tagged Linux 6.16-rc5 as the newest test release of Linux 6.16.lxer.com
Rhino Linux 2025.3 is now available with the RPK2 package management tool by default, UBports sponsorship, and the KDE Plasma 6 UBXI desktop.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Sent out this morning as part of this week's 'locking/urgent' pull request is a performance regression fix ahead of today's Linux 6.16-rc5 releaselxer.com
Learn how to run a Python script using Docker with a real example. Package your code and dependencies for any system, step by step.Anees Asghar (Make Tech Easier)
AI is changing how we use search to find the information we, but will it always be able to find that information?Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 6th, 2025, brings news about KDE Plasma 6.4.2, Thunderbird 140, Libreboot 25.06, DXVK 2.7, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Geany 2.1, a lightweight and user-friendly IDE, introduces new themes, enhanced session handling, modern file dialogs, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Let’s Encrypt begins issuing IP address certificates, expanding support beyond domain names to cater to specialized use cases, such as DoH and home devices.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Linux 6.16-rc5 Released With A Performance Fix, Bcachefs Fixes & New Device Support
Linus Torvalds just tagged Linux 6.16-rc5 as the newest test release of Linux 6.16...
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Minutes ago Simon Ser announced the official release of Wayland 1.24.lxer.com
Bash Shell 5.3 is out now, adding new scripting features, bug fixes, and enhancements to completion, substitution, and Readline.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Wayland 1.24 Released With Few Improvements
Minutes ago Simon Ser announced the official release of Wayland 1.24...
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Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has been working on a number of improvements to benefit the Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" support within the RadeonSI and RADV graphics drivers for benefiting modern Radeon GPUs under Linux...
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Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has been working on a number of improvements to benefit the Next-Gen Geometry 'NGG' support within the RadeonSI and RADV graphics drivers for benefiting modern Radeon GPUs under Linux.www.phoronix.com
The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is nee…lxer.com
Fedora 43 Looks To Zstd-Compressed Initrd By Default For Space Savings & Faster Boots
A change proposal has been raised to compress the initrd by default using Zstd compression rather than XZ. This change would help provide some disk savings as well as speeding up the boot process on modern systems with Fedora Linux...
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KDE Gear 25.04.3 apps collection introduces fixes across the suite, including enhancements to Kdenlive, Kate, Itinerary, Gwenview, and other desktop apps.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Intel Bartlett Lake-S EDAC Driver Support Coming For Linux 6.17
Intel software engineers continue ironing out their Linux support for Bartlett Lake...
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Linux 6.16 Performance Regression Tracked Down In New Futex Code
Sent out this morning as part of this week's "locking/urgent" pull request is a performance regression fix ahead of today's Linux 6.16-rc5 release. This latest performance regression in the Linux kernel is around the new Futex code merged this cycle with a big performance hit being observed in scheduler benchmarks...
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Sent out this morning as part of this week's 'locking/urgent' pull request is a performance regression fix ahead of today's Linux 6.16-rc5 releasewww.phoronix.com
SUSE developers working on their new operating system installer 'Agama' have been making steady progress and on Friday debuted Agama 16lxer.com
Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems.lxer.com
DXVK 2.7 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with various new features.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
The latest 7-Zip release speeds up bzip2 by up to 40%, improves ZIP and FAT archive support, and fixes multiple bugs and security vulnerabilities.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
For those on an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 'Lunar Lake' system, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel is looking to be in better shape for those newest Intel SoCs.lxer.com